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2. One Watt Initiative - Wikipedia

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   Standby power, informally called vampire or phantom power, refers to the electricity consumed by many appliances when they are switched off or in sleep mode.The typical standby power per appliance is low (typically from less than 1 to 25 W), but, when multiplied by the billions of appliances in houses and in commercial buildings, standby losses represent a significant fraction of total world ...

3. Standby power - Wikipedia

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   Standby power, also called vampire power [1], vampire draw, phantom load, ghost load, or leaking electricity, refers to how electronic and electrical appliances consume electric power. At the same time, they are switched off (but are designed to draw some power) or in standby mode. It only occurs because some devices claim to be "switched off ...

4. Amazon axes a major fee for sellers ahead of the crucial ...

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   The holiday season will be crucial for Amazon and its sellers, who account for around 60% of total goods sold on the shopping platform and whose fees contributed $140 billion of revenue to the ...

5. Miscellaneous electric load - Wikipedia

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   Feedback devices allow people to identify and reduce standby power and as well as cut back on unnecessary power draws. In addition, occupants can see the effects of running pool pumps/heaters, supplemental space heaters, air conditioners, etc. [ 5 ] Energy feedback devices can further assist zero energy buildings, where it is desirable to align ...

6. Exclusive: The FTC is probing Amazon’s new ... - AOL

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   Amazon first announced these fees and other seller fee changes in December, and said they were designed to increase shipping speeds for Amazon customers, while reducing the costs of such initiatives.

7. Amazon hits pause on controversial seller fee rollout that ...

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   Hundreds of thousands of merchants on Amazon will get a brief reprieve from a new controversial fee that was to take effect on April 1, a company executive said.. Amazon will still charge affected ...

8. Home idle load - Wikipedia

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   Home idle load is the continuous residential electric energy consumption as measured by smart meters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It differs from standby power (loads) in that it includes energy consumption by devices that cycle on and off within the hourly period of standard smart meters (such as fridges , aquarium heaters , wine coolers , etc.).

9. Load management - Wikipedia

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   Load management allows utilities to reduce demand for electricity during peak usage times (peak shaving), which can, in turn, reduce costs by eliminating the need for peaking power plants. In addition, some peaking power plants can take more than an hour to bring on-line which makes load management even more critical should a plant go off-line ...